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Video game mispronunciations, misspellings and misinformation

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  • CherrnCherrn Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    The year Donkey Kong Country came out for the SNES I cried on Christmas Day as all my friends fired up their copies, and all I got was "Donkey Kong" for Gameboy, and the Gameboy Player.

    Apparently the store had told my stepmother "it's the same thing."

    In hindsight, you got the better game.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Djiem wrote: »
    Also people that would come in there and ask if they had "that new Pizzle Trizzle" made me want to murder puppies.

    WHAT

    P.S. Triple, yo.

    I think PSTriple is actually pretty amusing.

    That Trizzle shit is infuriating, though.

    yes, yes it is.

    I like calling the 360 the Xbizzle TreSizzle

    I think it would be Xbizzle TrizzleSitty

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    That's like when I wanted pokemon for christmas but instead got a gameboy and wario world or something.

    Though it wasn't really a big thing since my mom is awesome and I ended up getting blue version a few days later.

    A big thing that took me years to teach my mom is that, no, you can't just buy me any game. Not every game is good. I don't want to play extreme paintball 3000. I do not want to play the planet of the apes movie game. Just get the game I ask for, and everyone will be happy.

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Skelly B wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    This kinda fits.

    I've been playing Final Fantasy games for 10 years, and I've played almost all of them for some length of time, but I never gave a thought as to what Phoenix Down was. I always called the singular "a Phoenix Down".

    Until I read the item description in FFXII, which is something like, "A tuft of soft feathers from a phoenix."

    Me: "...Oh my God, of course! Like goosedown, but phoenix down! Phoenix feathers! I am an idiot."

    :shock:

    I get it now.

    I think I realized this when the animation when using pheonix down in FFT or some other game had feathers in it.

    For a long time I missed the H in chocobo and thought it was cocobo (which I think I still like better. Also, meseta was metsa to me for a long time.
    It was worse in the older FF games, when the limited characters in the item list called the item "FenixDown" or something similar. There's nothing in the word other than the transliteration that makes you think about a Phoenix. I didn't make that association until Final Fantasy VI/III.

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Ahhh, so Phoenix Downs are actually Phoenix turds? It all makes so much sense now.

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  • TrustTrust Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Isn't Fenix latin for wolf? Was it just called that just phoenetically to conserve space?

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  • DjiemDjiem Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    DeMoN wrote: »
    That's like when I wanted pokemon for christmas but instead got a gameboy and wario world or something.

    Though it wasn't really a big thing since my mom is awesome and I ended up getting blue version a few days later.

    A big thing that took me years to teach my mom is that, no, you can't just buy me any game. Not every game is good. I don't want to play extreme paintball 3000. I do not want to play the planet of the apes movie game. Just get the game I ask for, and everyone will be happy.

    If you don't like money or gift certificates, it's very hard to buy presents for a geek.

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Well to be fair I was like 10 at the time. So it wasn't hard to buy for a geek, it was hard to buy for a child.

    But she got better after I explained things. After that I always got the games I asked for, none more.

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Trust wrote: »
    Isn't Fenix latin for wolf? Was it just called that just phoenetically to conserve space?
    It was just called that because there was very limited space to put the item name. Much like other butcherings like "Xcalibr" or "Drg Spear".

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  • TrustTrust Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Kinda a cross between 'Engrish' (I hate that term) and spacial nescessity. Strange that they would come up with these names and then not program in the space to display them OR just call the damn things names that would fit.

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Trust wrote: »
    Kinda a cross between 'Engrish' (I hate that term) and spacial necessity. Strange that they would come up with these names and then not program in the space to display them OR just call the damn things names that would fit.
    Well, to be fair, they are phonetically much SMALLER in Japanese than in English. You pretty much have only one character per syllable, whereas English has on average 2 or 3. Thus, smaller words are needed to display the same amount of vocal information. Everything on early games was programmed down to the byte. Things with sprites or textures share space with character information (both the in-game character and the characters used in language). Space constraints were a real problem back in the day, and a lot of clever tricks were used to conserve it.

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  • plufimplufim Dr Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    SNES. I can understand the two ways people chose to pronouce it, either "Ess En Ee Ess", or just as one word, "snes".

    But "an snes"? Fuck that. It's "an Ess En Ee Ess" or "a snes".

    Gah!

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Trust wrote: »
    Isn't Fenix latin for wolf? Was it just called that just phoenetically to conserve space?
    It was just called that because there was very limited space to put the item name. Much like other butcherings like "Xcalibr" or "Drg Spear".

    What the hell is a Drug spear?

    For the longest time, I called the Chaos Emeralds

    "ca-ose" (ca as in cat)

    instead of

    "K-os"

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  • TrustTrust Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I never thought about that. I only really got into gaming in the late 90's, so I never realised that they'd have to share bytes over multiple uses. I suppose it's quite a clever way of 'compression' out of need.

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  • DjiemDjiem Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    plufim wrote: »
    SNES. I can understand the two ways people chose to pronouce it, either "Ess En Ee Ess", or just as one word, "snes".

    But "an snes"? Fuck that. It's "an Ess En Ee Ess" or "a snes".

    Gah!

    Why would you say "an" if the next word starts with a consonant anyway?

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  • plufimplufim Dr Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Djiem wrote: »
    plufim wrote: »
    SNES. I can understand the two ways people chose to pronouce it, either "Ess En Ee Ess", or just as one word, "snes".

    But "an snes"? Fuck that. It's "an Ess En Ee Ess" or "a snes".

    Gah!

    Why would you say "an" if the next word starts with a consonant anyway?

    Uh.. this is a good point sir.

    At least "an snes" is still fucking retarded.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
    Taya wrote: »
    A few years ago a bunch of my friends and I were playing through Super Mario Bros and one of my friends says something like "watch out for the duck". There was a few seconds of silence before anyone said "what duck?". He pointed to the Koopa Troopa. "That duck".

    I can understand not calling it by its proper Nintendo name... but a duck? His logic was that it had a beak and therefore looked like a duck.

    Oh my god

    was his name fidel?

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  • ZackSchillingZackSchilling Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.

    The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds rough. There are similar rules in other languages just because of how awkward it is to say. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.

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  • DjiemDjiem Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.

    The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds undignified in English. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.

    But is it AN herb or A herb?
    :rotate:

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  • plufimplufim Dr Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Djiem wrote: »
    A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.

    The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds undignified in English. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.

    But is it AN herb or A herb?
    :rotate:

    A herb, because who would pronounce the "h" silently? :P

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  • TrustTrust Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Jamaican stereotype characters? *Looks knowingly at GTA4*

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    plufim wrote: »
    Djiem wrote: »
    A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.

    The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds undignified in English. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.

    But is it AN herb or A herb?
    :rotate:

    A herb, because who would pronounce the "h" silently? :P

    Me.

    it's a herb dammit, true, but when saying it aloud I will say an herb.

    Because stressing the H makes you sound douchy.

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  • FCDFCD Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Taya wrote: »
    A few years ago a bunch of my friends and I were playing through Super Mario Bros and one of my friends says something like "watch out for the duck". There was a few seconds of silence before anyone said "what duck?". He pointed to the Koopa Troopa. "That duck".

    I can understand not calling it by its proper Nintendo name... but a duck? His logic was that it had a beak and therefore looked like a duck.

    The faces of the early Koopa Troopas always looked like turkeys to me.

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  • FCDFCD Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Blackjack wrote: »
    FCD wrote: »
    When I was a little kid, I thought the term "Metroid" was a reference to Samus and thought that it was a type of space warrior. I learned about my mistake shortly afterward though.

    Wasn't there a retcon that made Metroid the Chozo word for great warrior, and that it became another name for Samus after she blew 'em all up? I seem to remember this from somewhere.
    If I was mean I could link the TVTropes page...

    But I'm feeling oddly nice right now so I'll just say that yes, they did that.

    Yeah, I had a feeling that's where I heard about it. Goddammed crack page :P

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  • CygnusZCygnusZ Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    In the original Phoenix Down means "Phoenix Tail", フェニックス尾.
    I always kind of thought that store was simply selling you a potion NAMED Phoneix Tail rather than actually giving you the tail though.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    plufim wrote: »
    Djiem wrote: »
    A/an is not a grammatical rule so much as a fitting of natural speech patterns back into the written word.

    The purpose is to avoid an unnecessary diaeresis with the vowel A, which sounds undignified in English. It's not the sort of thing you should ever have to think about.

    But is it AN herb or A herb?
    :rotate:

    A herb, because who would pronounce the "h" silently? :P

    Smart people?

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  • Spoom182Spoom182 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    When I was playing Ocarina of Time with a friend of mine, we'd have a lot of these debates. I remember going into Gerudo Valley. At the same time, we both said "I love Gerudo Valley" but he pronounced it Jerudo, as opposed to the hard G sound, and we both glared at eachother and had a 5 minute argument about it. This happened multiple times throughout the course of the game, another example is Hylian, pronounced "Hi-lee-an" or "hill-ian".

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I've always said 'Hi-lee-an'.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Hi-lee-an, definitely. Because how are you supposed to be a "hill" sound out of "Hyrule"?

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  • PolloDiabloPolloDiablo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It bothers me when people call a Desert Eagle, the handgun, a Deagle. That period after the D in Counter-Strike, that shit means it's an abbreviation. It means there's more to the word.

    But no, they say Deagle in normal speech, and I've just given up correcting people.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Hi-lee-an, definitely. Because how are you supposed to be a "hill" sound out of "Hyrule"?

    Just thinking about that myself.

    Also who pronounces 'Aeris' like 'Heiress?'

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  • DisruptorX2DisruptorX2 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Hi-lee-an, definitely. Because how are you supposed to be a "hill" sound out of "Hyrule"?

    Also who pronounces 'Aeris' like 'Heiress?'

    Everyone?

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It bothers me when people call a Desert Eagle, the handgun, a Deagle. That period after the D in Counter-Strike, that shit means it's an abbreviation. It means there's more to the word.

    But no, they say Deagle in normal speech, and I've just given up correcting people.

    try saying "D Eagle" at the same speed you would normally talk.

    for me it basically sounds like 'Deagle' with a tiny little pause inbetween that isn't worth going through the effort to make

    dis: that's good, there's a few different ways 'ae' can be pronounced

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It bothers me when people call a Desert Eagle, the handgun, a Deagle. That period after the D in Counter-Strike, that shit means it's an abbreviation. It means there's more to the word.

    But no, they say Deagle in normal speech, and I've just given up correcting people.

    It's an abbreviation dude.

    Yes, it sounds idiotic when people say it out loud. But it's Counter-Strike, people used to have to type to communicate in that game.

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  • DisruptorX2DisruptorX2 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I think given the idiocy that the Desert Eagle itself represents, calling it a Deagle is perfectly fine.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    what about Barret? I'm assuming it's 'bear-ette' and not 'buh-RETTE'

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  • ReznikReznik Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A friend of mine used to pronounce Tifa (tee-fa) as (tiff-a). It made me want to punch him.

    But then Advent Children came out and pretty much settled it.

    I also always thought mako was may-ko but apparently it's mah-ko. Oh, and Nye-bel-heim instead of Nee-bel-heim.

    What else...

    Oh yeah, how are you supposed to pronounce Celes? And is it Say-bin or Sah-bin?

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  • PolloDiabloPolloDiablo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It bothers me when people call a Desert Eagle, the handgun, a Deagle. That period after the D in Counter-Strike, that shit means it's an abbreviation. It means there's more to the word.

    But no, they say Deagle in normal speech, and I've just given up correcting people.

    try saying "D Eagle" at the same speed you would normally talk.

    for me it basically sounds like 'Deagle' with a tiny little pause inbetween that isn't worth going through the effort to make

    dis: that's good, there's a few different ways 'ae' can be pronounced

    But I mean, why would you ever say D. Eagle in normal speech? The only people I've ever heard talk like that are Counter-Strike players. It's not like Desert is a long or difficult word.

    Post Blue wrote: »
    A bunch of my suite mates in college used to call those bastardly Protoss ground units "Zee-lawts".

    Some of my friends persist in saying zay-a-lot. They just prefer how that sounds.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    my friend just called Tifa 'Taffy' so you had it pretty easy

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  • HtownHtown Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It's Aeris, not Aerith. Because Aerith sounds retarded in English and it's okay for names to be translated too.


    P.S. If anyone ever changes Terra to Tina, blood will be spilled.

    And it's Robotnik, bitch.

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